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Scarcity
A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis
- Harvard University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 45,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-98708-1
EAN 9780674987081
A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity-its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis. Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which human beings are innately possessed of infinite desires and society must therefore facilitate endless growth and consumption irrespective ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 54,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-04881-2
EAN 9780674048812
A major revision of our understanding of JFK's commitment to Vietnam, revealing that his administration's plan to withdraw was a political device, the effect of which was to manage public opinion while preserving US military assistance. In October 1963, the White House publicly proposed the removal of US troops from Vietnam, earning President Kennedy an ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-25984-3
EAN 9780674259843
An ambitious account of the corrosion of liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike, arguing that antidemocratic sentiment reflects fear of material and cultural loss, not a critique of liberalism's failure to deliver equality, and suggesting possible ways out. The retreat of liberal democracy in the twenty-first century has been impossible to ignore. From ...
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The Triumph of Broken Promises
The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism
- Harvard University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
PVP: 72,85 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97678-8
EAN 9780674976788
A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people. Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late ...
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Exporting Capitalism
Private Enterprise and US Foreign Policy
- Harvard University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 63,10 €
ISBN 978-0-674-25163-2
EAN 9780674251632
The first comprehensive history of America's attempts to promote international development by exporting private enterprise, a story marked by frequent failure and occasional success. Foreign aid is a primary tool of US foreign policy, but direct financial support and ventures like the Peace Corps constitute just a sliver of the American global development pie. Since ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 32,00 €
ISBN 978-0-674-27355-9
EAN 9780674273559
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding. A perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books.It's easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 440 páginas
PVP: 61,60 €
ISBN 978-0-674-98818-7
EAN 9780674988187
The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long before the rise of the Greeks. Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You would notice a remarkable similarity in the dress, alphabet, consumer goods, and gods ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-05563-6
EAN 9780674055636
Praise for the previous edition:"Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building in Western history."-Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic"In her brief but compendious volume [Beard] says that the more we find out about this mysterious structure, the less we know. Her book is especially valuable because it is up to date ...
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Becoming Human
A Theory of Ontogeny
- Harvard University Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 39,05 €
ISBN 978-0-674-24828-1
EAN 9780674248281
Winner of the William James Book Award "Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general chronology in which these traits appear can at least-and at last-be identified." -Wall Street Journal "Theoretically daring and experimentally ingenious, Becoming Human squarely tackles the abiding question of what makes ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-0-674-24477-1
EAN 9780674244771
"A timely account of how the 1% holds on to their wealth...Ought to keep wealth managers awake at night."-Wall Street Journal"Harrington advises governments seeking to address inequality to focus not only on the rich but also on the professionals who help them game the system."-Richard Cooper, Foreign Affairs"An insight unlike any other into how wealth ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 52,55 €
ISBN 978-0-674-24423-8
EAN 9780674244238
A colorful history of US research universities, and a market-based theory of their global success.American education has its share of problems, but it excels in at least one area: university-based research. Thats why American universities have produced more Nobel Prize winners than those of the next twenty-nine countries combined. Economist Miguel Urquiola argues that the ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1150 páginas
PVP: 47,00 €
ISBN 978-0-674-98082-2
EAN 9780674980822
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system. Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 32,85 €
ISBN 978-0-674-97209-4
EAN 9780674972094
A Five Books Best Economics Book of the YearA Politico Great Weekend Read"Absolutely compelling."-Diane Coyle"The evolution of modern management is usually associated with good old-fashioned intelligence and ingenuity... But capitalism is not just about the free market; it was also built on the backs of slaves."-ForbesThe story of modern management generally looks to the factories ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 42,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-24121-3
EAN 9780674241213
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- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 31,25 €
ISBN 978-0-674-05249-9
EAN 9780674052499
From one of our preeminent philosophers-winner of the Berggruen Prize-a work that engages critically with important examples of the cosmopolitan ideal from ancient Greece and Rome to the present. The cosmopolitan political tradition in Western thought begins with the Greek Cynic Diogenes, who, when asked where he came from, responded that he was a citizen ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-674-23814-5
EAN 9780674238145
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The People vs. Democracy
Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save it
- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-674-23768-1
EAN 9780674237681
The world is in turmoil. From Russia, Turkey, and Egypt to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized power. As a result, democracy itself may now be at risk.Two core components of liberal democracy individual rights and the popular will are increasingly at war with each other. As the role of money in politics soared ...
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Bring the War Home
The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-674-23769-8
EAN 9780674237698
The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Returning to a country ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win, a small group of Vietnam veterans and civilians who shared their virulent anti-communism and potent sense of betrayal concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. The ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 672 páginas
PVP: 39,95 €
ISBN 978-0-674-91645-6
EAN 9780674916456
A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities. Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities, who had previously accounted for 20 percent of the population. By 1924, the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks had been ...
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Ripples in Spacetime
Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
- Harvard University Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 16,15 €
ISBN 978-0-674-23774-2
EAN 9780674237742
The detection of gravitational waves has already been called the scientific breakthrough of the century. Einstein predicted these tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime over a hundred years ago, but they were only recently perceived directly for the first time.Ripples in Spacetime is an engaging account of the international effort to complete Einstein's project, ...
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